Tag: Experimental

John Paul Stapp was not only known for his work as a flight surgeon in World War II, but he…

Phillip Zimbardo had long been curious as to why prisons were such violent places, and he wanted to find out…

Carney Landis, a psychologist with the hope of discovering a series of universal facial expressions, subjected volunteers to a series…

Ian Oswald, a sleep researcher and psychiatrist from the University of Edinburgh, sought to discover whether people could sleep through…

Thomas Midgley Jr., a mechanical engineer and chemist, was not only responsible for the invention of leaded gasoline, the main…

Clarence Leuba, a professor of Psychology, conducted an experiment in 1933 to find out whether laughter is a natural response…

Dr. Ewen Cameron believed that he had come up with a cure for schizophrenia by re-programming the brain with new…

In 1963, Jose Delgado developed a “stimoceiver.” In case you’re wondering what that is, it’s a computer chip operated by…

Doctors Robin Warren and Barry Marshall were able to isolate the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) which is responsible for stomach…

As you might imagine, Truko the Elephant was not the first being to experience an LSD trip. Well then, who…

Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a German surgical trainee in 1929, is famous for an experiment he performed on himself. Without…

The High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF) in California got a little carried away with one of their new metal melting…

Johann Conrad Dippel was born in the castle Frankenstein in 1673. A scientist who spent his days studying anatomy and…

Robert E. Cornish was a child prodigy who graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, at the age…

Paracelsus was an alchemist and physician in the 1500’s that was credited for his earliest works in toxicology and psychotherapy.…

Lawrence LeShan, a researcher from Virginia, conducted a test to see whether subliminal messaging could break bad habits like nail-biting.…

Kevin Warwick is a British scientist, engineer, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Coventry University UK known for his researches in robotics. He…

Stubbins Ffirth was an American doctor known for his unusual research on the cause of Yellow Fever. He was so…

Hwang Woo-Suk, a Korean veterinarian, researcher, and professor of theriogenelogy and biotechnology, made waves with apparent breakthroughs in stem cell…

A study on elephant’s behavior resulted in the most outrageous experiments made in the name of science when Warren Thomas…

Charles Claude Guthrie, an American physiologist, made significant contributions in his field and even collaborated with Alexis Carrel, a French…

Wilhelm Helm, a psychoanalyst and a follower of Sigmund Freud, developed the Orgone Theory in the 1930’s. He believed that…

Dark matter observation experiments, our universe looks empty, but in fact 95% are dark matter and dark energy, we can…

Rice fever is a disease that occurs in wheat and rice crops. Although it is not harmful to people, it…